Tim Boerger
@timboerger.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, bowler (sometimes). Strong opinions on coffee, gin cocktails and sandwiches. Hopelessly idealistic. Mostly harmless. He/him
Awesome! It's a two-for-one boycott!
Beginning Monday, a Frozen Peppermint Hot Chocolate drink will be available exclusively at Starbucks cafés inside Target stores.
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
The chains are hoping the drink can drum up excitement from customers this holiday season.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/yrshv45s
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Awesome! It's a two-for-one boycott!
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Nonplussed has a correct usage, which is not the common usage, and I get nonplussed when I hear the word used incorrectly.
What's your most niche and unimportant crusade?
Mine is that I use the symbol "var" (as scientific standards bodies indicate) for reactive power instead of "VAR" (most common) or something weird like "Var" or worse, "VAr".
I'll admit it does feel a bit odd to put "Mvar" next to "MW" and "MVA". 🔌💡
Mine is that I use the symbol "var" (as scientific standards bodies indicate) for reactive power instead of "VAR" (most common) or something weird like "Var" or worse, "VAr".
I'll admit it does feel a bit odd to put "Mvar" next to "MW" and "MVA". 🔌💡
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Nonplussed has a correct usage, which is not the common usage, and I get nonplussed when I hear the word used incorrectly.
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Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!
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New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - The Crow’s Second Tale by Marissa Lingen
So Kiris knew, even at the age of five: no one should only know one story. Not even a crow, like in the song. And if she was the only one who had spotted the problem, she felt down to her five-year-ol...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
New story this morning! The Crow's Second Tale in @bcsmagazine.bsky.social ! www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-... This is one of my stories that is 100% not autobiographical except the part that is, which is that I tell stories to crows too, just in case.
All their wheeling and dealing is not going to change the mind of a true believer.
November 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
All their wheeling and dealing is not going to change the mind of a true believer.
SO HAS ANYONE READ ANYTHING INTERESTING LATELY???
November 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
SO HAS ANYONE READ ANYTHING INTERESTING LATELY???
I know there's a lot going on today but I see that one of my nice neighbors has a Christmas tree up and now I want to flip a table over or something.
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I know there's a lot going on today but I see that one of my nice neighbors has a Christmas tree up and now I want to flip a table over or something.
What would make this better is if the Steam Machine was orange.
(IYKYK)
(And also has HL3 on it. And a physics based game that will blow out collective minds.)
(IYKYK)
(And also has HL3 on it. And a physics based game that will blow out collective minds.)
Announcing: New @steampowered.com Hardware, coming in 2026:
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Controller
Steam Machine
Steam Frame.
Watch our jazzy announcement video and wishlist now: steampowered.com/hardware
Steam Hardware
The Steam Hardware family officially expands in early 2026.
steampowered.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
What would make this better is if the Steam Machine was orange.
(IYKYK)
(And also has HL3 on it. And a physics based game that will blow out collective minds.)
(IYKYK)
(And also has HL3 on it. And a physics based game that will blow out collective minds.)
I mean we have Paul Bunyan and Babe, but I guess they never made it down to the Cities.
why do all the monsters go to LA, NYC or Tokyo? why can’t Minneapolis get terrorized by a giant ape every once in a while ?
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I mean we have Paul Bunyan and Babe, but I guess they never made it down to the Cities.
Nicholas is right here.
What the public wanted to see was the Democrats finally say "fuck you, make me."
Make them give up a concession or blow up the filibuster. They needed to make a stand for principle.
And they gave it up for less than nothing.
What the public wanted to see was the Democrats finally say "fuck you, make me."
Make them give up a concession or blow up the filibuster. They needed to make a stand for principle.
And they gave it up for less than nothing.
No, false.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
This wasn’t about a mere “policy agenda”—pre-Trump shutdowns were, which is also why they were much shorter—it was about egregious lawbreaking.
No one explained how it could’ve gone any other way? I did.
Just put on the red hat and say you like the serially lying authoritarian, Josh.
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Nicholas is right here.
What the public wanted to see was the Democrats finally say "fuck you, make me."
Make them give up a concession or blow up the filibuster. They needed to make a stand for principle.
And they gave it up for less than nothing.
What the public wanted to see was the Democrats finally say "fuck you, make me."
Make them give up a concession or blow up the filibuster. They needed to make a stand for principle.
And they gave it up for less than nothing.
I despise Dem strategists.
Constantly bending to find some compromise and not drawing a line. The way they told it before the elections was they would hold the line on the ACA. All they got from all this pain was a worthless promise from Republicans.
Constantly bending to find some compromise and not drawing a line. The way they told it before the elections was they would hold the line on the ACA. All they got from all this pain was a worthless promise from Republicans.
“Talks among a group of bipartisan senators accelerated after Democratic sweeps in the off-year elections …. Republicans said that Democrats appeared concerned that backing off their shutdown demands before voters went to the polls would depress turnout.”
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I despise Dem strategists.
Constantly bending to find some compromise and not drawing a line. The way they told it before the elections was they would hold the line on the ACA. All they got from all this pain was a worthless promise from Republicans.
Constantly bending to find some compromise and not drawing a line. The way they told it before the elections was they would hold the line on the ACA. All they got from all this pain was a worthless promise from Republicans.
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Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Hi Minnesotan Bluesky:
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
The DFL has a well-known transphobia problem. I'm organizing to change the party platform in 2026 to be explicitly supportive of trans people in Minnesota. This will provide a basis for expelling transphobia from our party.
Join me: abetterdfl.org.
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I made a post about walkability in St. Paul, and commenters took it as an opportunity to pit Minneapolis and St. Paul against each other. I don’t know how to explain that it’s not productive.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I made a post about walkability in St. Paul, and commenters took it as an opportunity to pit Minneapolis and St. Paul against each other. I don’t know how to explain that it’s not productive.
Good Lord...10 rounds.
IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER IT'S OVER
MIN 🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🟢
SEA 🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🔴
MIN 🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🟢
SEA 🟢🔴🟢🟢🟢🟢🔴🔴🟢🔴
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Good Lord...10 rounds.
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I'm going to be one of the speakers at an online writers' conference/workshop in January. If you're a writer interested in working on your craft while finding community, check it out:
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I'm going to be one of the speakers at an online writers' conference/workshop in January. If you're a writer interested in working on your craft while finding community, check it out:
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
wholeheartedwriters.weebly.com
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
November 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing
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Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.
November 7, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Sean Dunn should never have to buy his own lunch in this city again.
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I am unironically here for the Edmund Fitzgerald zeitgeist. Half my IG timeline is Fitz memes and tributes. People are learning about Gordon Lightfoot and how Lake Superior hates you, personally, and wants to do you a violence.
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot. n.pr/3JKj19D
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I am unironically here for the Edmund Fitzgerald zeitgeist. Half my IG timeline is Fitz memes and tributes. People are learning about Gordon Lightfoot and how Lake Superior hates you, personally, and wants to do you a violence.
What, is phrenology not doing the job?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What, is phrenology not doing the job?
I mean... Grocery inflation continues to rise and you've illegally stopped SNAP funding. Seems like starve the disenfranchised is how they get those gains.
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I mean... Grocery inflation continues to rise and you've illegally stopped SNAP funding. Seems like starve the disenfranchised is how they get those gains.